No statement contained in this Article shall be construed to interfere
with any additional requirements that may be imposed by any authorized officer
of the Rockland County Health Department or the Department of Health of the
State of New York.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful to construct or
maintain any privy, privy vault, septic tank, cesspool or other facility intended
or used for the disposal of sewage.
Where a public sanitary or combined sewer is not available under the
provisions of this chapter, the building sewer shall be connected to a private
sewage disposal system complying with the prevailing provisions of the State
of New York Department of Health and the Rockland County Health Department.
Before commencement of construction of a private sewage disposal system,
the owner shall notify the inspector that construction is about to commence
and that approval has been received from the proper county and state authorities.
The owner shall operate and maintain the private sewage disposal facilities
in a sanitary manner at all times at no expense to the village.
The owner of all houses, buildings or properties used for human occupancy,
employment, recreation or other purposes, situated within the village and
abutting on any street, alley or right-of-way in which there is now located
or may in the future be located a public sanitary or combined sewer of the
village, is hereby required, at his expense, to install suitable toilet facilities
therein and to connect such facilities directly with the proper public sewer
in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, within ninety (90) days
after the date of official notice to do so, provided that said public sewer
is within one hundred (100) feet of the property line.
When notice is given that a public sewer is available, the building
sewer shall be connected to said sewer within ninety (90) days, and the private
sewage disposal system shall be cleaned of sludge and filled with clean bank-run
gravel or dirt.
At such time as a public sewer becomes available to a property served
by a private sewage disposal system, as provided in this chapter, a direct
connection shall be made to the public sewer in compliance with this chapter,
and any septic tanks, cesspools and similar private sewage disposal facilities
shall be abandoned and filled with suitable material.
